PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE: 10 AUGUST – 29 SEPTEMBER, 2018

The Blue Mountains Permaculture Institute will be running a Permaculture Design Course in Bathurst, NSW on Friday evenings and Saturdays, weekly from Friday 10 August to Saturday 29 September, 2018. Permaculture is a regenerative systems design strategy for building environmental, social and economic resilience to create a better future for everyone. This is a great opportunity for those who would like to take the time to fully absorb and integrate permaculture ethics, principles and design strategies, and offers a pathway to completing the internationally recognised course around other work or family commitments. (see contents of curriculum below)

TEACHERS:

Teachers will include Rosemary Morrow, Lis Bastian, and other specialists in their field.

This is an opportunity to work with teachers who have a diverse experience in urban, rural and international settings, as well as social permaculture, permaculture in business, and permaculture strategies for growing regional resilience at government level.

Rosemary Morrow:

Rowe originally studied Agricultural Science at the Sorbonne, in Paris and is an internationally regarded author and educator. She is the author of numerous permaculture publications, including “The Earthusers Guide to Permaculture” which has been translated into numerous languages. For over 30 years she has taught permaculture in some of the world’s most challenging environments, including war-torn countries and refugee camps. Through her work she has helped grow the permaculture movement in South East Asia, Africa, Western Europe, Afghanistan and Kurdistan, UK, New Zealand and throughout Australia. Her “Permaculture Teaching Matters” book is also now being translated internationally as the demand for permaculture education grows.

Lis Bastian:

Lis is the co-founder of the Blue Mountains Permaculture Institute and has been teaching with Rowe for the last decade. She has been an Al Gore trained Climate Ambassador, Climate Adaptation Officer for 17 Councils in Central NSW, lecturer in Environmental Management, and is the founder of The Big Fix, a NFP organisation focused on growing a collaborative solutions-focused culture, supported by a Solutions Media Service. After a long and varied career that has also included arts and cultural development (she has been CEO of Arts OutWest and Varuna, the Writers’ House), it is the ‘design’ elements and the systems thinking approach of permaculture that most informs her social change work.